If the finger length analysis is true, I’m kind of screwed up. My ring finger on one hand is longer, and on the other, my index finger is longer. I also have two partially webbed toes on one foot and two other toes that don’t touch the ground. All of this I think makes me a half-bi-gay-straight-lesbian-wimp-pirate-manly-accountant-trapeze artist who can talk to animals.FSM and love

My 2D:4D ratio is about 1.05. I also have purple fingernails (as do my father and brother).

No one told me these things were unusual until I was 18, when I went to a new doctor who, in the first physical exam, blurted out that based solely on my hands he would have guessed I was a woman with severe heart failure.

So … um … I’m a heterosexual male (probably Kinsey 0.8 or something like that) and my ring fingers are at least a centimeter longer than my index fingers. This is especially significant, because my fingers aren’t very long.

Now, I suppose I’ve always considered myself a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, and I may or may not in the past have acquired some digital* media in less-than-legal ways. Also, I support a woman’s sovereignty over her body and right to equal pay.

Left hand equal, right hand index is slightly longer than ring. What does that mean as a transwoman?

Nothing at all. I thought those MRAs said they were skeptics; since when was there any evidence for the validity of this pop science? I would LOVE for it to be true and validate my femininity, but sadly it doesn’t. Every study I’ve seen has shown the difference to be so slight as to be within error. There might be something, in some cases, maybe, but it’s hard to tell. The variation overwhelms the data sets.

Since this whole dust-up started with a bunch of dress-wearing men in funny hats, wouldn’t be something if all the US Catholic bishops woke up one day and found that their penises had been replaced with vaginas while they slept?

Please, let’s not suggest that the science is bullshit (it’s generally done well, although results are mixed) by reasoning anecdotally, even if as a joke. Far too few people appreciate statistical claims as is.